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Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply.
Vita Sackville-West
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Vita Sackville-West
Age: 70 †
Born: 1892
Born: March 9
Died: 1962
Died: June 2
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I suppose the pleasure of the country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. That is a truism when said, but anything but a truism when daily observed. Nothing shows up the difference between the thing said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.
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I miss you even more than I could have believed and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.
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Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.
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I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.
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Of course I should love to throw a toothbrush into a bag, and just go, quite vaguely, without any plans or even a real destination. It is the Wanderlust.
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I do not like January very much. It is too stationary. Not enough happens. I like the evidences of life, and in January there are too few of them.
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The public, as a whole, finds reassurance in longevity, and, after the necessary interlude of reaction, is disposed to recognize extreme old age as a sign of excellence. The long-liver has triumphed over at least one of man's initial handicaps: the brevity of life.
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Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life.
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All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have heldReality down fluttering to a bench.
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Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.
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Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.
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But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung.
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Travel is a private pleasure, since it consists entirely of things felt and things seen.
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I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.
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